Fayetteville police are investigating after a man was found shot to death Tuesday evening in what is being called a case of a resident protecting his wife from an attacker.

The incident happened just before 10 p.m. in the 7500 block of Netherland Drive.

Jerome A. Allen, 51, was pronounced dead at the scene.

UPDATE: The property manager of North Ingleside Townhomes says a Fort Bragg soldier shot a man who pulled a gun on his wife while she was outside her townhome smoking a cigarette. #ABC11pic.twitter.com/8Lb10yTwnI